One exciting thing for me during the past week was getting in contact with the university's dance circle. The circle had an information event for the new students last Monday evening and another event on Thursday when all the different kind of dance style groups had shows so that the new-comers can decide which kind of dance they would like to start there. Today the new students were finally able to try dancing also themselves if they had decided which kind of group they want to join. I had known my choice since the last semester when I had seen some locking (check here which kind of dance it is) performances at the school festival. The trainings will be twice a week from now on and Google Translate told me other rules of the circle that were written on the paper we got. I am so excited!!
Last weekend felt like summer holiday for me. It was really warm during day time and I hardly did any school work. Today I joined one of my friends to go to Nagayama for a flower festival. It took quite a while to get there with different trains. It took some extra time because one of our trains stopped suddenly before reaching the next station. They announced that an accident had happened and we have to wait for a while. We waited for quite a while and almost went to the front of the train to check if we could see from the front window what had happened on the rails. But on the same time we were wondering why so many people were standing at the back of the train watching out of the back window. Finally then also we got up from the seats to take a look on what we could see behind our train. And surprisingly we came to realize that the scene really was behind us and not in front of us. There were many policemen swarming around a lying man who was covered with a blanket. Our train had hit someone. Without even knowing if it was a pure accident or if the person really was dead (as it seemed), it was a little bit scary... After our train had stood on one spot for 45 minutes we decided to kill some time and go to check also the front of the train and we saw that the first car of the train had basically reached the next station so we could get off and change to another train line.
Our destination was a quite flat town surrounded by mountains (kind of like Fukuoka actually but much smaller). We walked through empty streets and figured out the reason for the quietness at the festival place. Everyone was there under the roof of the purple wisteria flowers.
After walking through the area we took a festival shuttle bus to the mountains. We walked the ways and stairs up to a temple and a pagoda and it was so beautiful and peaceful in the middle of the forest there. In many places we could hear only the sound of the small forest rivers and the birds, no people and no cars. I felt I could stay there for hours and hours, even days...
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| The circle is training outdoors |
Last weekend felt like summer holiday for me. It was really warm during day time and I hardly did any school work. Today I joined one of my friends to go to Nagayama for a flower festival. It took quite a while to get there with different trains. It took some extra time because one of our trains stopped suddenly before reaching the next station. They announced that an accident had happened and we have to wait for a while. We waited for quite a while and almost went to the front of the train to check if we could see from the front window what had happened on the rails. But on the same time we were wondering why so many people were standing at the back of the train watching out of the back window. Finally then also we got up from the seats to take a look on what we could see behind our train. And surprisingly we came to realize that the scene really was behind us and not in front of us. There were many policemen swarming around a lying man who was covered with a blanket. Our train had hit someone. Without even knowing if it was a pure accident or if the person really was dead (as it seemed), it was a little bit scary... After our train had stood on one spot for 45 minutes we decided to kill some time and go to check also the front of the train and we saw that the first car of the train had basically reached the next station so we could get off and change to another train line.
Our destination was a quite flat town surrounded by mountains (kind of like Fukuoka actually but much smaller). We walked through empty streets and figured out the reason for the quietness at the festival place. Everyone was there under the roof of the purple wisteria flowers.
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| On top of the flower roof |
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| This curvy tree is 300 years old and provides a huge area of the flower roof |
After walking through the area we took a festival shuttle bus to the mountains. We walked the ways and stairs up to a temple and a pagoda and it was so beautiful and peaceful in the middle of the forest there. In many places we could hear only the sound of the small forest rivers and the birds, no people and no cars. I felt I could stay there for hours and hours, even days...
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| The statues of 500 disciples of Buddha in the forest |
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| Some trees had red leaves. Early autumn? |
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| Interesting flowers |
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| A baby bamboo |
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| This house in a quite area in the forest reminded us of the movie Spirit away. We felt like if we crossed the bridge, we might end up to another world and see all the strange workers of the house. |
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